Unwise Laughter
Ma, you remember The Money Pit starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long?
Place: VA hospital in San Francisco, CA
Time: Sept 11, 2002 - one year after 9/11
I had stomach surgery on the 9th, don't remember much about the 10th and was moved into a room in trauma care on the 11th. One of the planes that was hijacked on 9/11 had a lot of people from San Francisco and the Bay Area aboard. The anniversary of 9/11 was on every single station in the hospital except two. One was showing operation information and the other was showing The Money Pit. A slapstick comedy about a couple buying a wonderful house that needs some work.
Major work. Comedy ensues.
I was lying there, filleted like a fish, laughing hard enough that I needed a pillow over my stomach and me clutching it. Especially the part with the raccoon. If anyone has seen the film, they know the scene.
I got you to watch a year later, Mom, and I thought you'd bust open non-existent stitches.
And others:
"I'm a doctor, I can do something about that hump."
"What hump?"
Place: VA hospital in San Francisco, CA
Time: Sept 11, 2002 - one year after 9/11
I had stomach surgery on the 9th, don't remember much about the 10th and was moved into a room in trauma care on the 11th. One of the planes that was hijacked on 9/11 had a lot of people from San Francisco and the Bay Area aboard. The anniversary of 9/11 was on every single station in the hospital except two. One was showing operation information and the other was showing The Money Pit. A slapstick comedy about a couple buying a wonderful house that needs some work.
Major work. Comedy ensues.
I was lying there, filleted like a fish, laughing hard enough that I needed a pillow over my stomach and me clutching it. Especially the part with the raccoon. If anyone has seen the film, they know the scene.
I got you to watch a year later, Mom, and I thought you'd bust open non-existent stitches.
And others:
"I'm a doctor, I can do something about that hump."
"What hump?"
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